Protecting-box for electric wiring.



H. w. EDEN. PROTECTING BOX FOR ELECTRIC WIRING.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 16,1908. Patented 0ct.26, 1909.

miimr-ms Flnuminr @0 0 a G) 3 L UNITED STATES HAROLD W. EDEN, OF DETROIT, COMPANY, OF DETROIT,

MICHIGAN, ASSIGNO'R T0 P. I MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

3. MANUFACTURING PROTECTING-BOX FOR ELECTRIC WIRING.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed December 16, 1908.

Serial at). 467,734.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD W. EDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of lVayne, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Protecting-Boxes for Electric Wiring, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accom anying drawings, which form a part 0 this specification.

This invention relates to protecting boxes for electric wiring; it has tor its object an improved construction of protecting box, especially adapted for the reception of the ends of pipes where either the pipe itself is bent or some coupling attached to the pipe is larger than that part'of the pipe which passes through the wall of the box.

In the drawing:l*igure 1, is an end elevation of thecoupling box. Fig. 2, is a perspective of the fillet adapted to fill an opening in the box. Fig. 3, is a' sectional elevation of an end of the box, showing a pipe in place therein. ig. 4, is a side elevation of the edge of the notch.

The box 1, preferably made of an integral piece of metal, shaped and formed as a deep cup, is provided at an end thereof, with a rectangular slot 2, terminating at the bottom with a halt round seat 3 for the engagement of the pipe. A fillet 4, rectangular in shape, and provided with a c0unterpart of the pipe seat, is adapted to fill this opening. In order to hold the fillet in place, the edges of the slot in the box are provided with notches or seats 5 and O, the seat 3,

being on the outside and the seat 6 b ing on the inside. The fille,c is rovided with tongue-like projections .pressei out from the metal of the fillet and formed into haltround tongues 5 air t3, ada )ted to engage closely in the seats 5 and (5. Similar notches- 51 and 61 on the opposite side of the slot are adapted to engage with tongues and (32 on thc opposite side of the iillet. The tillet is placed in the slot with the tongues engaging in the seats which nay be easily I 'the aperture and washer nuts tending partially through the done by placing the one piece into the other in the angular relation, and swinging the fillet until the .tongues are in the roper engagement; the arts are held in p ace, either by the cover 0. the box, which engages on a bracket 8, riveted to the fillet, or by washerlike nuts 9 and 10, which run on a thread on the pipe 11 that engages through the seat opening between the fillet and the body of the box.' The coaction of the tongues and the seats in which they engage, and either the cover or the pi securely in place. ith this fillet, the. i e may he slipped into its seat before thel ill dt is placed 1n position, and the fillet placed in position afterward.

What I claim is 1. In a'protecting box for electric wiring, having in combination a box body having an apertured side wall, suitably spaced portions thereof about the edge of the aperture being partially indented, a contour to the. aperture, adapted to engage therein, complementarily locatedportions of the edge of the fillet being partially indented and formed into tongues adapted to register with the indented portions of the wall, a conductor pipe entering said box through gage on each side of the wall. said entering conductor pipe, and to hold Patented ocean, 1909.

e, will hold the fillet.

adapted to en and fillet about fillet of complementary the fillet in the plane of the adjacent portion of the wall by the engagement thcreagainst on each side. substantially as described.

2. In combination with an apertured box body having indented notched portions exsurrouiulin edge portions of the box wall and intcgriil tongue portions projecting into the aperture at such points of partial indentation, a fillet adapted to close said aperture, provided with indentations and tongues complementary to and adapted to register with those of the surrounding et'lge ol the box wall, all of said indentations and tongues lying within the plane of the fillet and ot' the adjacent 'hox W111i, and means adapted to cooperate with said indentations and tongues for holding the illet in posit on within such plane, substantially as described.

' 3.. In' combination with a box body proof the fillet and of theadjacent wall of the Vided. with slots extending intosaid body at box body, substantially as described. 10 one side thereof and with notches along the In testimony whereof, I sign this specired e -bf said slot and on opposite faces of the fication in the presence of two witnesses.

5 we lsyof said box, a fillet provided with pro- 2 HAROLD W. EDEN.

jecticjns and partial indentations on its op- Witnesses: 7

site faces adapted to engage in said CHARLES F. BURTON,

note} es, all of said parts lying 1n the plane 4 VIRGINIA ,C. SPRA'rr. 

